TY - BOOK AU - Pietikäinen,Petteri ED - Taylor & Francis. TI - Madness: a history SN - 9781315708966 (electronic bk.) AV - RC438 .P54 2015 U1 - 616.89 23 KW - Mental illness KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Treatment KW - Psychiatric hospitals KW - Psychiatry KW - Mental Disorders KW - history KW - Hospitals, Psychiatric KW - History, 18th Century KW - History, 19th Century KW - History, 20th Century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to madness and its history -- Part I. Madness from antiquity to the age of the Enlightenment -- Madness in ancient and medieval times -- Madness, folly and religion in early modern Europe -- From the devil's temptation to wrong thinking : madness in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Part III. The great transformation : medicalization of madness in the long nineteenth century -- The age of the asylum -- The medical management of madness -- Living and dying in asylumland -- Naming the mad mind -- Part III. Naming and managing madness in the golden age of asylums -- Mental maladies in the twentieth century -- Mental treatment from magnetism to psychoanalysis -- War and madness -- Shocks and surgeries : somatic treatments of the twentieth century -- Part IV. Madness in the Cold War era and beyond -- Mind control, political psychiatry and the human rights -- The psychopharmacological revolution -- Madness between sanity and normalcy -- Epilogue; Electronic reproduction; London; Available via World Wide Web UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315708966 ER -